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Learn what you can do to reduce the risk of wildfires and mitigate their impact. These viruses usually do not cause disease in wild species but spread occasionally to domestic birds (ducks, chickens, ...
Bird flu was first detected in California’s wild bird population in July 2022. It was later found in a dairy cow in Central California at the end of August 2024. There’s been more than 60 ...
The patient was hospitalized in Louisiana, the health agency said. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed the first case of severe bird flu in the United States.
Instead, it is a version of the virus — 2.3.4.4b genotype D1.1 — that is circulating in wild birds. A recent severe illness in a teenager in British Columbia, Canada, was also caused by ...
Since then, successive waves of infection, spread by wild birds, have plagued poultry farms around the world. Recently, however, H5N1 took an unsettling evolutionary step in the direction of humans.
Stephen Colbert‘s dance moves went viral over the weekend after a video was shared of him getting his groove on with Oprah Winfrey. The talk show host addressed the viral video on Monday’s ...
But for the world’s wild birds, the prospect of a deadly, uncontained outbreak is not theoretical. The virus has already decimated avian populations around the globe, with body counts that can ...